WASHINGTON - Your brain needs more of a time-out than just missing the next game to recover from a concussion. New research suggests student athletes who are too active — not just on the field, but at home and school — may hinder their recovery.
More puzzling, female athletes may take longer to recover than males.
It’s [...]

- (HealthDay News) — Many factors, both physical and emotional,
may keep you awake while you're expecting. But it's important to get
plenty of quality sleep while you're pregnant.

Here are suggestions to help alleviate insomnia during pregnancy,
courtesy of the American Pregnancy Association:

Find a comfortable and — perhaps a new — sleep position.
Relax before bedtime with a [...]

- MONDAY, Aug. 11 (HealthDay News) — One in five men in their 40s has
had a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test in the past year, and young
black men are more likely than young white men to have undergone the test,
a new analysis shows.

The findings, published in the Sept. 15 issue of Cancer, should
help experts as [...]

Jean Liu and Kevin Huang, of San Jose, Calif.,poser after they were married at San Francisco City Hall, Friday, Aug. 8, 2008. They said they were married due to this lucky day, 8-8-08. The date is also revered in China where more than 16,000 Beijing couples tied the knot on China’s auspicious triple-eight date, adding [...]

- Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by editors of HealthDay:

School Stress Leading Reason for Teen Drug
Use: Survey

Coping with school-related stress and pressures is the main reason U.S.
teens give for using drugs, according to a Partnership for a Drug-Free
America survey that appears to confirm that drugs are increasingly used [...]

- (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of CenterWatch:

Depression (Adolescent)

If your child is between the ages of 12 and 17, in good
physical health, and has been diagnosed with major depressive disorder or
has had MDD symptoms for at least one month, the child may be eligible to
participate in this study.

The [...]

- MONDAY, Aug. 11 (HealthDay News) — An experiment that improved
the natural cellular garbage-disposal system in mice made old liver cells
act young again. And the same rejuvenating effect might be possible one
day in the brain and other body parts of humans, researchers report.

“We studied one of the systems that remove damaged proteins,” said
study leader [...]

- MONDAY, Aug. 11 (HealthDay News) — A gene variation may explain why
some people are more prone to anxiety disorders, such as post-traumatic
stress, a new study says.

People carrying two copies of the Met158 variation of the
catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene showed greater anxiety on a
standard personality test and also were significantly more startled than
others when [...]

- MONDAY, Aug. 11 (HealthDay News) — Learning more about normal cells
that give rise to cancer may hold the key to understanding and treating
cancer, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers who
identified cells linked to a deadly brain cancer.

“Identifying the specific, normal cells that cancer come from can
provide critical insight into how cancers [...]

- MONDAY, Aug. 11 (HealthDay News) — Cardiac resynchronization
therapy (CRT) can help heart failure patients' hearts beat more
efficiently and effectively, but most U.S. hospitals don't use it as it
should be used, a new report finds.

CRT involves doctors implanting a device that paces the heart's main
chambers to beat in sync.

“Studies have shown that, [...]